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EASTENING DEVICE `FR GLOVES, GARTERS,-&c.

No. 314,174. Patented Mar. 17, 1885.

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E. GRISWOLD.

EASTENING DEVICE EOE GLOVES, GAETEES, am.

No. 314,174. Patented Mar. 17, 1885.v

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UNITED STATES PATENT ATrice.

EDMOND GRIS'WOLD, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ELIZABETH A.

GRISWOLD, OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part ef Letters Patent No.

314,174, dated March 17,1885. p

Application filed June 16, 1884. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMOND GRrsWoLD, of New York, in the county of NewYork and State of New York, have invented cert-ain new and usefulImprovements in Fastening Devices for Gloves, Garters, and LikeArticles; and I do hereby declare that the yfollowing is a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to novel devices for attachment to gloves, belts,Suspenders, corsets, harness, garters, and all analogous articles, ithaving for its object to provide devices so constructed as to rendereasy and simple the mode of fastening together the parts of such namedarticles, and also to very materially cheapen the cost of manufacture ofsaid devices as compared with the cost of many heretofore employed.

IVith these ends in view my invention consists in the devices'asconstructed, and in the particular combinations of partsv to behereinafter distinctly described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan viewof the two parts serving to constitute the complete device, one of whichmay or may not be ad,- justable. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional viewthereof. Figs. 3 and 4 represent the manner of application of the deviceto alaced glove or mitten. Figs. 5 and 6 represent plan and sectionalviews, respectively, of a modification; and Figs. 7 and 8, the form ofdevice last named as a glove-fastener, the one figure representing it asapplied at intermediate points on the two portions or sides of a lacedglove or mitten, while the other indicates the substitution of thedevices fo r buttons, a separate cord or pullbeing employed for each.Figs. 9 and 10 are plan and sectional views, respectively, of thedevices,with slight variations in construction.

The several parts of the device are stamped or cutfrom a single piece ofmetal and afterward bent or shaped into the desired form.

Referring to the parts by the letters, A A

represent the two parts of the device,serving to constitute the whole.The said parts` are secured one to each end or portion of the belt,glove, or garter B by eyelets b, as sho-wn, 5 5 the eyelet that retainsA holding therein a cord or pull, B', by which the two parts of thedevice are drawn together to be united. 3indicates a small hook or pieceof metal turned down in the side of the portion A', and is for 6opassing the free end of the cord under after lacing. The cord or pull Bis held in the eyelet that retains plate A by a small button at its endand a knot made therein at the under side of said plate, both as shown.To the free 6 5 end of the cord B a small button or sleeve is secured toprevent such end from slipping out of the retaining-eyelet of A. throughwhich it is passed.

It will be observed that for gloves, mittens, 7o or corsets which arelaced by a single continuous cord this device, placed at the end'orextremity of such lacing,will serve to keep them tightly drawn together,(see Fig. 3;) or instead 0f being employed Only at the extremitythere-75 i of they may be located at intermediate points, and in cases whereit is desirable to dispense with both lacing and buttons my devices canreadily be substituted. (See both Figs. 7 and 8.) 8c

In Figs. 5 and 6 I have shown the part A to be constructed of twoportions hinged to-v gether, this construction being desirable in someinstances.

In Figs. 9 and 10 the construction of the 85 parts A A is of forming thepart A with two sets of hooks, c, instead of only one hook, as used inthe other gures. These hooks are for engaging the slot or the l- -shapedportion gt* of the contiguous end of part A. The 9o hooks c6 are formedby slitting 'the metal at right angles in three directions and bendingthe tongue thereby produced outwardly or backwardly.

In operatingthese devices to fasten together 9 5 the two sides of abelt, ,corset, garter, or like varticles the free end or side thereof,or the pull7 B', as I terni it, is slipped up through the eyelet of Afrom beneath,and then tightly drawn backward or in a reverse direction,roo

which brings together the two parts of the device and causes them tointerlock.

When desired to uncouple the parts,by pulling the cord backward untilthe hook acis'free of the slot and allowing a sudden release of the cordthey will readily separate.

Certain other forms of the device which were presented with thisapplication originally, and which Were stricken therefrom, I reserve theright to claim in a subsequent application intended to be filed by me.

Having thus described myinvention,Wl1at I claim is- 1. The combination,in a fastening device for belts, corsets, and analogous articles,of thepart A',"having a hook at one end, and'thepart A,provided with a slot toreceive said hook, eyelets by which said parts are secured, and apull-cord having one end secured in the eyelet of one part and its otherend ,passing through the eyelet of the opposite part, sub- 2o stantiallyas described.

VWitnesses.

EDMonD GRIsWoLD.

Titnessesz JAMEs C. ABBOTT, JAMES J. FOX.

